Wadkin has sold Japanese-designed, Taiwanese-made IIDA moulders for a while, but at W6 it announced a new strategy for bringing the machines to market.
The company is now bringing in IIDA products in component form and building them to customer specification at its modern Bardon plant. The machine on show made this way was the Wadkin IIDA MHPlus.
“We feel this provides the best of all worlds; Japanese design excellence, the build quality that Wadkin is so well-known for and a very competitively priced machine – around £90,000 for the MH Plus,” said managing director Peter Smith.
The company was also flagging up its new relationship with Slovenian high output moulder manufacturer Ledinek. It has supplied one of the latter’s 250m/min Superplan machines as part of a complete timber processing line to John Brash Group. It’s the first in the UK and, said Wadkin sales and service director Steve McGloin, is also unique in its “three spindle planing and splitting application”.
“Weighing 17 tonnes, the machine will serve John Brash‘s exacting requirements and UltraCare will support the operation “24/7” with four service technicians trained by Ledinek.”
Wadkin’s Amazon Machine Solutions used the show to announce the addition to its range of Italian Salvador optimising, semi-automatic cross-cut and panel saws and Sicar classical machines.
